I have tremendous regard for Gen. Stanley McChrystal and the outstanding service he has rendered to our nation.

I met with Gen. McChrystal in Iraq, where he was joint special-operations commander carrying out the most daring and vital missions. He is a warrior and a patriot. Yet his remarks in Rolling Stone were clearly inappropriate and wrong. I understand and support President Obama's decision to accept his resignation as commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

I also, of course, strongly support the president's decision to have Gen. David Petraeus succeed McChrystal. Petraeus is a true American hero, who carried out the "surge" policy in Iraq and turned that war around from the brink of defeat.

He did this against great odds and the blindly partisan opposition of then-Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the scurrilous attacks of left-wing lowlifes such as Moveon.org, which slandered him as Gen. "Betrayus."

On my recent visit to Afghanistan, I was (as always) impressed and inspired by the dedication of our men and women who are in harm's way every day. Their mission there is essential to defeating Islamic terorrism. We must defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda.

For Gen. Petraeus to be able to succeed, however, President Obama must finally take command of his administration and assert control over the civilian officials in his administration who consistently undermined Gen. McChrystal. For starters:

Hook, line and sinker even the erstwhile Rep King buys the whitehouse/MSm hatchet job on Stanley. Show me in the now infamous article where the general said anything? ???

Actually, the article is sort of an interesting riposte to Obuttocks, because it essentially challenges him - on very legimitate grounds - to get rid of people he simply no longer has the political capital - or cojones - to get rid of, which means that essentially the article is attempting to set up a situation where Obuttocks would necessarily fail. Four of the civilian "loose cannons" Rep. King identifies in the op-ed piece: * Vice President Biden must not be allowed to continue contradicting Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and undercut our military commanders in Afghanistan by saying that large numbers of troops will be pulled out of Afghanistan next summer.

* Karl Eikenberry, our ambassador to Afghanistan, must not be allowed to publicly criticize Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whose support is essential to our success.

These are legitimate, reasonable grounds for doing to Biden, Gates, Clinton, and Eikenberry what was done to McChrystal (leaving aside the deeper principle that McChrystal should not have violated the long tradition the active military has of staying conspicuously silent on political matters, a tradition that should be preserved at all cost). However, can anyone imagine Obuttocks having the courage or the cojones to discipline any of these four, no matter how far off his rez they get? I don't think so.

No, whatever else Rep. King may or may not be, he's done a useful little job here by setting up a challenge that Obuttocks will necessarily fail.

My only *problem* with Gen. David Petraeus taking over on the ground in Afghanistan is it's sort of like a 'demotion'. He's a General (4 Stars), the head of CENTCOM, who'll now be doing the job of a Lieutenant General (3 stars).

To me its like Ike personally commanding the 3rd Army instead having Patton Commanding it right after D-Day.(1). (And after 1st being relived or commanding the 7th Army in Sicily)

So I just don't hope that Bambi doesn't screw Gen Petraeus after next July when Bambi says troops sre pulling out, then the Gen won't have a job and will be forced to retire.

He mocked Petraeus and the surge that transformed Iraq, although that country is still far from out of the woods...now he goes running back to the man for help, because his “hand picked” general spoke his mind and the truth....but, right now I’m wondering how Petraeus feels about getting demoted...

President Obama must be a true leader and demand that all the civilian officials in his administration line up behind him and Gen. Petraeus and put aside their egos, their grievances and their liberal ideology.

President Obama must...? Witness collectivism, soft tyranny, domestic enemies. Witness their ideology and tactics inside our/your "house". What gangs are they attached to? What collectives are they beholden to? What anti-truth, anti-freedom collectives are funding them. What anti-truth, anti-freedom collectives are being defunded, de-legitimized, dismantled? Zero. President Ocollectivist, The Divider-in-Chief must...? Wake up Peter King.

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